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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

PRETTY CURIOUS | What Is Beauty Beyond The Binary? with David Yi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Pretty Curious, a new series where every other Monday, we’ll be talking all things beauty—skincare, haircare, self-care, and beyond. For our premiere episode, we’ve invited back Getting Curious guest David Yi to discuss their GRWM routine, their K-Beauty faves, and how they’re making skincare more inclusive with their brand Good Light. We get into our interview 8 minutes and 30 seconds into the episode, after some stunning product reviews from Jonathan, so skip to then if you simply can’t wait to hear from David! For more information on the beauty products we discussed this week, head to @curiouswithjvn on Instagram. David Yi is the founder and editor of Very Good Light, a beauty platform that aims to democratize beauty for all people and author of the book, PRETTY BOYS. He's been written about in the NYT, LAT, Forbes, Allure, among others as the thought leader in men's beauty, identity, and Asian American advocacy. David has championed DEI in his decade of journalism, writing for the likes of the WSJ, GQ, Vogue, and WWD. Additionally, he is a founder of AIM, Advocates for Inclusion in Media, as well as a GLAAD and Webby nominee. You can follow David on Instagram @seoulcialite. good light is on Instagram and TikTok @goodlight.world, and at goodlight.world. And Very Good Light is on Instagram @verygoodlight, and at verygoodlight.com. You can revisit David’s episode of Getting Curious here. Make sure to check out our other new series, Curious Now. And don’t worry—Getting Curious isn’t going anywhere. We’ll still be releasing new episodes every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious, Curious Now, and Pretty Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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freshest streaming service. Welcome to our first edition of Pretty Curious.

1:14.0

I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every other week I sit down with a stunning beauty expert

1:18.0

to talk all things hair care, skin care, self-care, and beyond.

1:23.5

Before being cast on Queer Eye,

1:25.2

I was in the salon every day.

1:27.1

I love salon life, I love salon chat,

1:29.7

I love the energy and culture of a salon,

1:32.0

and I deeply miss that time.

1:35.0

And since being on Queer Eye, it's not like I don't do hair. I do hair all the time.

1:39.5

I do it on my friends, I do it on my family, I do it on our heroes. I've founded a hair Caroline since then, but honey I

1:45.8

miss that connection. I miss that beauty talk and that is part of why we're

1:49.8

launching pretty curious because in the podcast base I've never really had a dedicated place to talk

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